this is the new replacement for the economy I hope!
go internet power!
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 10 Jul 2012, 22:50,
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Fuck the economy
Look at the gaming potential!
Ed: You make an interesting point though. If we can fund this so quickly, imagine what else we could do, collectively...
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(|D[ekionplexis B3ta.com: fictional child porn is OK, Tue 10 Jul 2012, 22:52,
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This is massively interesting.
A great idea that if it gets legs should shit up the industry.
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Shinigawa The milky bars are on me, Tue 10 Jul 2012, 22:54,
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I know right, I can imagine millions of people kicking themselves thinking, 'why didn't I think of that'.
I didn't even know Android was open-source, I thought Google owned it, so would require a market share of the device.
The idea of all those android games, and maybe even apps/who knows running on your TV is interesting, especially all those old-school emulators and other mad shit.
Because usually the only way you could upscale them would be by either playing them on your desktop or on a tablet, this could be quite something.
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(|D[ekionplexis B3ta.com: fictional child porn is OK, Tue 10 Jul 2012, 22:56,
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I've just watched the season 2 finale of Fringe
And I think that's why your tone is making me exceptionally paranoid and anxious...
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Wed 11 Jul 2012, 0:42,
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I don't play games,
I just like the idea that in the near future things won't be done by big companies but by ad-hoc co-operatives summoned into existence by people who want to do something awesome, that evaporates back into the cyber-ether as soon as they've achieved whatever they set out to do.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 10 Jul 2012, 22:55,
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Maybe one day the government will work much like Kickstarter does.
FREE BALLOONS FOR ALL
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(|D[ekionplexis B3ta.com: fictional child porn is OK, Tue 10 Jul 2012, 22:58,
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we can but hope,
put an end to this world of finance based on usury. All projects funded not by people who want to get more money out than they put in, but by people who put money in because they actually want to see the thing happen.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 10 Jul 2012, 23:03,
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If banks don't do it, the mafia will just fill in the spot.
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Tue 10 Jul 2012, 23:16,
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Look I just want to buy my little girl a horse.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 9:59,
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Usury (play /juri/[1]) is the practice making loans with excessive or abusive interest rates.[2][3] The term may be used in a moral sense — condemning taking advantage of others' misfortunes — or in a legal sense where interest rates may be regulated by law. Historically some cultures have regarded charging any interest for loans as sinful and some still do today.
Some of the earliest known condemnations of usury come from the Vedic texts of India. Similar condemnations are found in religious texts from Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (the term is riba in Arabic and ribbit in Hebrew).[4] At times many nations from ancient China to ancient Greece to ancient Rome have outlawed loans with any interest. Though the Roman Empire eventually allowed loans with carefully restricted interest rates, in medieval Europe, the Christian church banned the charging of interest at any rate (as well as charging a fee for the use of money, such as at a bureau de change).
The pivotal change in the English-speaking world seems to have come with the permission to charge interest on lent money[5]: particularly the 1545 act "An Act Against Usurie" (37 H.viii 9) of King Henry VIII of England (see book references).
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 11 Jul 2012, 11:19,
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